A woman was in critical condition Tuesday and her son in stable condition after they were both wounded by gunfire on their block Monday night.
Police were called to the 1400 block of Berryhill Street just before 7 p.m. by neighbors who heard more than a dozen shots being fired.
Neighbors said a car pulled up and someone inside opened fire. Then another group of people fired back at the car, hitting the car.
Harrisburg police are looking for a 2016-20 white Kia Optima, possibly with a tinted sunroof, that they believe was involved in a shooting on Monday evening. (Photo provided by Harrisburg police.)
Harrisburg police provided a photo of the car during a news conference at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon and identified it as a four-door, 2016-20 white Kia Optima, that possibly had a tinted sunroof.
Police Lt. Kyle Gautsch said earlier on Tuesday that they had some leads and were continuing to investigate the shooters’ identities and what prompted the shooting.
“We have nothing to indicate the woman and child were the intended targets,” Gautsch said.
He urged anyone with additional information to contact the police, even if just anonymously.
“We are hoping the fact that a 6-year-old child was shot on his porch would create enough empathy that people would come forward,” he said.
“It was the innocent ones that got hit,” said a neighbor who hit the floor in her home Monday when she heard the gunfire.
A man who lived on the block said he was changing the oil of a parked vehicle along Berryhill Monday night when he heard three gunshots that sounded like they were coming from a car in the street. He dove to the ground and didn’t see anything, he said, but heard additional rounds being fired after that.
A vehicle was traveling behind the shooter’s vehicle, he said, and that vehicle quickly tried to pull over behind a van for cover. When the sound of gunfire stopped, he got up and ran into his home, he said.
The shooting comes on the heels of a series of other shootings across the city in recent days, including three to four on Friday night. Police don’t have enough information that would connect this shooting to the others at this time.
“The fact that it’s a mother and child, it’s absolutely awful,” said Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo. “Every shooting is distressing, but when you have true innocents as victims, it’s all the more horrible.”
Berryhill Street from 13th to 17th streets has been scary lately with regular gunfire, a neighbor told PennLive Monday after the shooting.
“Allison Hill is kind of like a war zone right now and nobody is safe,” she said. “You could lose your life just walking to the store.”
The man who dove to the ground Monday said: “This is a hot street.”
Now the neighborhood is bracing for a series of “revenge” shootings, as gunfire is often traded between feuding groups.
“We just don’t know when,” the neighbor said. “Just gotta pray you don’t get in the way.”
The block has been plagued by shootings recently, according to residents, some of whom are living in homes without hot water or air-conditioning.
Staff Writer Jana Benscoter contributed to this report.
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